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doctrinal
adjective as in conventional
Strongest match
Weak matches
- bigoted
- bourgeois
- button-down
- commonplace
- conforming
- conservative
- demure
- dogmatic
- drippy
- hackneyed
- hidebound
- humdrum
- illiberal
- in rut
- inflexible
- insular
- isolationist
- lame
- literal
- moderate
- moral
- narrow
- narrow-minded
- not extreme
- not heretical
- obstinate
- parochial
- pedestrian
- prosaic
- puritanical
- routine
- rube
- run-of-the-mill
- sober
- solemn
- square
- stereotyped
- straight
- strait-laced
- strict
- stuffy
- uptight
adjective as in dogmatic
Strongest matches
adjective as in homiletic
adjective as in orthodox
Weak matches
- according to the book
- acknowledged
- admitted
- approved
- authoritative
- buttoned-down
- by the numbers
- canonical
- conformist
- conservative
- conventional
- correct
- customary
- devout
- die-hard
- established
- in line
- legitimate
- official
- old-line
- pious
- proper
- punctilious
- reactionary
- received
- recognized
- religious
- right
- rightful
- sanctioned
- sound
- square
- standard
- straight
- straight arrow
- traditionalistic
- true
- well-established
adjective as in religious
adjective as in theological
Strongest matches
adjective as in traditional
Example Sentences
Some of this is not in the briefing, and it may not be obvious from the docket, so I’ll be listening to the arguments and looking at the reasoning once the decisions come out to see what this court is doing in those new doctrinal areas, and what that tells us.
Trump knew little of doctrinal matters, but he could spot loyalty.
"What we have now in the Age of Trump is a situation where what it means to be a Christian is adherence to political conservative orthodoxy, rather than Christian doctrinal orthodoxy."
What we have now in the Age of Trump is a situation where what it means to be a Christian is adherence to political conservative orthodoxy, rather than Christian doctrinal orthodoxy.
And the sheer number of religions, and belief systems—not to mention the doctrinal rejection of both—housed under the big tent makes organizing exponentially more complicated for Democrats than for their GOP counterpart, with its handful of more homogenous religious factions.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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